23 years on an average is wasted preparing to get a job.
This is 28.75% if our life (assumption based on average life expectancy of 80years)
We all know each year has 365 days.
On an average private companies have 10 national holidays and an employee gets 30 days as paid leaves.
Saturdays and Sundays makes up 104 days in a year
To conclude we work 221 days in a year and end up spending 60.5% of our working life waiting for a weekend or a holiday.
If we assume that a person works for 30 years. We waste 18 years waiting for a weekend or a holiday.
Based on the assumptions above if we live till the age of 80 years we waste 41 years .i.e. approx 51% of our lives working waiting for weekend or a holiday to relax and enjoy life.
- Thinking thinker thinking too much
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I Love This Post
This is simply amazing. This makes me feel so nostalgic.
Click here to read.
I went to UK in January of 2004 for doing MS that was then, things were easy and tough.
I found MSN maps and went through them multiple times to make myself familiar to the area.
UK and I will forever share a relationship of love and hate.
That time I was driven by my ambitions and lived for other insignificant things.
Now, I am driven by the people in my life and the love they have for me.
Click here to read.
I went to UK in January of 2004 for doing MS that was then, things were easy and tough.
I found MSN maps and went through them multiple times to make myself familiar to the area.
UK and I will forever share a relationship of love and hate.
That time I was driven by my ambitions and lived for other insignificant things.
Now, I am driven by the people in my life and the love they have for me.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Working for small company Vs big company (IT)
As a fresher there is always a conflict about joining a big brand or a start up/medium scale company. Everyone have their own biased views on the same, depending upon their past experiences.
Common arguments for smaller companies are:
1. One gets to learn more as there are less procedures and everyone should know how to work on everything as per the need.
2. The work is more challenging.
3. Visibility to the top management.
Arguments for joining a big brand:
1. Big bucks sooner or later.
2. Easy life as one is on the bench all the time.
3. Learns more on how not to work by putting in more procedures.
4. One gets to learn how to get work done in proper manner.
5. One develops skills in one area, hence becoming master in one technology rather than being jack of all trades.
Well, the pros and cons are numerous for both the cases.
In my personal opinion it is very difficult to join big brands once you have worked for smaller brands. Especially if one started working from a small company.
A fresher in the beginning needs support from the ecosystem of a big brand company. One needs to be groomed, polished and trained for the corporate world. In the beginning one may feel stifled working for a big company as he/she may end up on the bench for 6months to 1 year. Benefit of being on bench is that one gets proper time to adjust to the big bad world before being entering the rat race.
Small companies have their own advantages as they make you rough and tough to the core. But they lack exposure to procedures and feels stifled in more professional work environments. Also, there is a difference in doing things right with 100% success ratio Vs ad hoc fix for the same work every time.
Choosing which kind of company to work for is a big decision as it is difficult to shift between the two ends of the spectrum. Especially if one develops their comfort zone.
Before choosing which offer to accept its advisable to sit down and write on a piece of paper, what Big company has to offer and what a small company has to offer. Then write down his/her expectations from their ideal workplace. This should then be tallied with the lists of what big and small companies have to offer.
Also, one should network as much as possible and find out about respective working environments.
I hope this would be of help to many people struggling with their first job offers!
Common arguments for smaller companies are:
1. One gets to learn more as there are less procedures and everyone should know how to work on everything as per the need.
2. The work is more challenging.
3. Visibility to the top management.
Arguments for joining a big brand:
1. Big bucks sooner or later.
2. Easy life as one is on the bench all the time.
3. Learns more on how not to work by putting in more procedures.
4. One gets to learn how to get work done in proper manner.
5. One develops skills in one area, hence becoming master in one technology rather than being jack of all trades.
Well, the pros and cons are numerous for both the cases.
In my personal opinion it is very difficult to join big brands once you have worked for smaller brands. Especially if one started working from a small company.
A fresher in the beginning needs support from the ecosystem of a big brand company. One needs to be groomed, polished and trained for the corporate world. In the beginning one may feel stifled working for a big company as he/she may end up on the bench for 6months to 1 year. Benefit of being on bench is that one gets proper time to adjust to the big bad world before being entering the rat race.
Small companies have their own advantages as they make you rough and tough to the core. But they lack exposure to procedures and feels stifled in more professional work environments. Also, there is a difference in doing things right with 100% success ratio Vs ad hoc fix for the same work every time.
Choosing which kind of company to work for is a big decision as it is difficult to shift between the two ends of the spectrum. Especially if one develops their comfort zone.
Before choosing which offer to accept its advisable to sit down and write on a piece of paper, what Big company has to offer and what a small company has to offer. Then write down his/her expectations from their ideal workplace. This should then be tallied with the lists of what big and small companies have to offer.
Also, one should network as much as possible and find out about respective working environments.
I hope this would be of help to many people struggling with their first job offers!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
2 Days 7 Hours
Two days and seven hours to start my journey and then couple of hours more on the flight and I will be eating Aloo Tikkis. Level of desperation is really high and my taste buds are crying out loud for an aloo tikki. I know how each single day has passed without my dear Aloo Tikkis.
2 days 7 hours to go
Hip Hip Hurrah
SLUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Can you hear the slurppp in Delhi?
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Wow!!!
I am sitting in Office working.
I get some free time, so I check the counter for number of days remaining in UK.
And then WOW!!!
I can smell DAAL MAKHANI and NAAN. Yes it is true!!!
I do not know how? But, it is true...
Yummmmmmm... I love DAAL MAKHANI...
I AM COMING BACK TO INDIA IN 16 DAYS
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Small update for long time away
Well it has been long long time since, I updated my blog.
Things are finally picking up pace at work and my UK stay is coming to an end (30 days remaining). Looking forward to facing the Indian summers - which I have not faced in last 3 years.
Every time I say goodbye to UK and return. I have to return to UK.
Let us see what happens this time.
Things are finally picking up pace at work and my UK stay is coming to an end (30 days remaining). Looking forward to facing the Indian summers - which I have not faced in last 3 years.
Every time I say goodbye to UK and return. I have to return to UK.
Let us see what happens this time.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Virtual life
Today some incident made me think about my current life. For the past 4-5 years I am an important part of life for some people and more recently I got added to the life of many more people. But, the fact is that I rarely get to meet them.
For all of them I exist, as a person and they occasionally get to hear about me from different people. But, I am never ever in front of them. It has been ages since I have met them.
Even for my immediate family, I exist only on phone, Internet; in pics, web cam etc.
What next?
Will I always be away from my loved ones?
For all of them I exist, as a person and they occasionally get to hear about me from different people. But, I am never ever in front of them. It has been ages since I have met them.
Even for my immediate family, I exist only on phone, Internet; in pics, web cam etc.
What next?
Will I always be away from my loved ones?
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
What is it... in the air?
What is it in the air... that I am so excited...
What is going on that I am so restless...
I am not such a good poet, but I think you get the flow of things...
[Note for people who think in double meanings, this is not what you are thinking - got it. So make no comments of such nature.]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
New Year - I am excited
New Years Eve!!! Hmmm...
Coming year has so many things already set to happen. Some by chance, some planned and some spontaneously planned. Hopefully plans will excute as planned.
Last to last, new years was a bad year with Tsunami and me and my friends donated their new year celebration money. Let us hope nothing similar happens this year. And last year I was too busy to think about anything regarding life, celebration or anything. While, this new years resolution is to spend some time living and not working; and travelling across the globe. Hopefully I will be able to travel as much as I am planning to.
Wishing a very happy and prosperous new year to all, who visit my blog. I won't be posting anything till 2nd Jan, 2007 as I will be travelling.
Kitne Ajeeb Rishtey Hein Yahan Par
Looking back at last two years, it makes me think; how weird are relations between human beings. How one connects with another unknown person in a minute and how the very next minute they are bitter enemies.
Does setbacks like these, makes one surround himself/herself in a shell. Technically speaking should one become Introvert?
It is so strange that once you are best of best friends and then over years something happens and then you have nothing to with that person. What makes this happen?
- Too much informality?
- Lack of communication?
- Taking another person for granted?
- Greed?
Well, there can be multiple reasons. But, human mind is most difficult to understand. Well I think title of this post will always remain a mystery.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Civilization(s)
We study about Egyptian Civilization, Mayas, Indus valley and many more. This makes me wonder:
What will our civilization will be called?
Are we one civiliaztion across the globe?
Are we multiple civilizations?
Will we be survived by future generations to be explored?
Can we be called a civilization? Are we civilized?
I am not worried about the first three questions. What makes me wonder is the 4th question. All the civilizations before us vanished. But, our civilization is the only one which has the potential to destroy the whole planet. And, we are doing that job pretty well.
If we consider all the world as one civilization then, we will be the most advanced and the largest civilization on earth, ever. But, will we be remembered, explored etc. Will there be people to explore us, afte we vanish?
Or more interesting, if we manage to ruin and destroy our planet and before that we colonise other planets in the solar system. What kind of civilization will we develop there?
I do not know where I want to go with this post. But these were just few of those random questions and ideas one gets :-)
Friday, December 08, 2006
Classic Tale (Wants and needs)
Read the story
http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2005/sep/28don.htm
Jagger almost got it right with that fantastic song: You always want what you can't get
http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2005/sep/28don.htm
Jagger almost got it right with that fantastic song: You always want what you can't get
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Ring-Ring sorry I am busy
As the economic boom continues and people are getting more and more ambitious day by day; if you sit back and take a bird’s eye view of the situation – one may see that things are not as they seem to be. The fact is people are getting busier day by day; they have no time to sit back and relax.
To be frank, today’s working youth has no time to; even attend phone calls (that are not work related) most of the time. A typical workday starts at 7:30-8AM from getting ready to work and reaching office by 9. This ends by 6-8PM depending upon the workload, plus the traveling distance. Rest of the time is spent either on internet, TV, relaxing, having food etc. This problem is further compounded if you are staying with your parents. Then there is absolutely no time et al. However, people staying independently still have some time to touchbase with friends etc. But those times are so late in the day that one may only touchbase with other people in similar situation like them (Other people who are living independently). Well this leads to only casual relationships or friends and no real relationships or real friends. This takes its toll in the long run in many ways. There is very little or no scope for having a friends circle outside your office colleagues.
Well this is one problem; there are more problems that are slowly cropping up – like health related issues, stress etc. We seriously need to look for more venues for improving our lives. Life is not just work, but many other things. Fun and relaxation does not mean partying out late, binge drinking, taking dope etc. These methods of fun and relaxation often lead to feeling more tired and stressed out than he/she was previously.
Conclusion: We must seriously try to pause, our fast-paced life and take out time to reflect upon what are we doing and where are we heading? How this all is affecting your personal life?
Discussing all the issues and providing solutions to these issues is out of scope for this post and may be this blog.
To be frank, today’s working youth has no time to; even attend phone calls (that are not work related) most of the time. A typical workday starts at 7:30-8AM from getting ready to work and reaching office by 9. This ends by 6-8PM depending upon the workload, plus the traveling distance. Rest of the time is spent either on internet, TV, relaxing, having food etc. This problem is further compounded if you are staying with your parents. Then there is absolutely no time et al. However, people staying independently still have some time to touchbase with friends etc. But those times are so late in the day that one may only touchbase with other people in similar situation like them (Other people who are living independently). Well this leads to only casual relationships or friends and no real relationships or real friends. This takes its toll in the long run in many ways. There is very little or no scope for having a friends circle outside your office colleagues.
Well this is one problem; there are more problems that are slowly cropping up – like health related issues, stress etc. We seriously need to look for more venues for improving our lives. Life is not just work, but many other things. Fun and relaxation does not mean partying out late, binge drinking, taking dope etc. These methods of fun and relaxation often lead to feeling more tired and stressed out than he/she was previously.
Conclusion: We must seriously try to pause, our fast-paced life and take out time to reflect upon what are we doing and where are we heading? How this all is affecting your personal life?
Discussing all the issues and providing solutions to these issues is out of scope for this post and may be this blog.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Nice Story - Every little counts! Especially for the one whose life gets affected by it.
This was FWDed to me by one of my friends:
A man was walking down the beach at sunset. As he walked along, he saw another man in the distance. He noticed this man kept leaning down, picking up something and throwing it out into the water, again and again. As he approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach. He was throwing them back into the water, one by one.
Puzzled, he approached the man and said, "Good Evening. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, I don't throw them back into the ocean, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"But, there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possible get to all of them. And, don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The man bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and threw it back into the ocean. With a smile he replied, "Made a difference to that one !!!"
A man was walking down the beach at sunset. As he walked along, he saw another man in the distance. He noticed this man kept leaning down, picking up something and throwing it out into the water, again and again. As he approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach. He was throwing them back into the water, one by one.
Puzzled, he approached the man and said, "Good Evening. I was wondering what you are doing."
"I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it's low tide and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If, I don't throw them back into the ocean, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
"But, there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possible get to all of them. And, don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"
The man bent down and picked up yet another starfish, and threw it back into the ocean. With a smile he replied, "Made a difference to that one !!!"
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Life
When bad things happen in life, one feels bad. One is left with bitter feelings for the one who caused it. But, now I have started to like all those people who did bad to me. When something goes wrong or bad it leaves you more wiser and you get to learn a lot from it. Which, helps you improve your future.
But this is subjective - some people get bogged down from the bad things happening in life and some people try to gain as much as possible from it.
It is the way you look at things that changes everything. Who said medicine tastes good (except for homeopatheic medicines ;-) ).
When the going is tough, one might feel that he/she is a loser etc. It is easy to give it all up and just sit idle in those moments. But that is the time when you can sit down and prepare yourself for the battles to be WON ahead. Destiny is what you make of yourself, it is not what you let others make out of you. Maybe sometimes things are not in your control - but basically you should always have loads of patience, tolerance and above all you should always be pro active. Yes this all sounds easy, but very difficult to act upon.
This is life!!! - In my short simple way
But this is subjective - some people get bogged down from the bad things happening in life and some people try to gain as much as possible from it.
It is the way you look at things that changes everything. Who said medicine tastes good (except for homeopatheic medicines ;-) ).
When the going is tough, one might feel that he/she is a loser etc. It is easy to give it all up and just sit idle in those moments. But that is the time when you can sit down and prepare yourself for the battles to be WON ahead. Destiny is what you make of yourself, it is not what you let others make out of you. Maybe sometimes things are not in your control - but basically you should always have loads of patience, tolerance and above all you should always be pro active. Yes this all sounds easy, but very difficult to act upon.
This is life!!! - In my short simple way
Monday, May 29, 2006
Three Quarter Chinese, Church Street, Bangalore
Decor at Three Quarter Chinese
Menu at Three Chinese QuartersThree chinese quarters is situated on Church Street next to Brigade road. If you are coming from MG Road turn right from Sapphire and after NASA you will see Amoeba and there on the ground floor we have Three Quarter Chinese.
Coming back to the restaurant. Restaurant is nicely done, I don't know how to describe the decor but it is modern. There is a small black island on the entry with small candles on the table, which is a cool place to sit and has black leather sofas. Rest is the general sitting area and there is a bar. Restaurant is huge inside and so is the waiting time. You can expect minimum waiting of 30 minutes on the weekends.
The staff is english speaking and courteous; but service is poor in terms of time taken. You have to wait for the food to arrive, in the meantime you can easily forget what you ordered ;-). But, the food is delicious and well presented. You can order north-Indian or Chinese or have a combination of both.
Menu is not rectangular as you expect but a semi-circle; as you can see in the picture. The dining experience is formal. So, if you want to take your boss or that special someone for dinner or lunch, this is the place to be. But with so many people eating and chatting and music. The place can get very very noisy. So if you are a person who likes to eat in peace and calm surroundings you should avoid this place.
The prices are slightly above normal and a meal for two comes normally at INR 600.00 but, the quantities are large; so be careful while ordering multiple dishes.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Why do people discriminate?
I feel people discriminate because they do not understand others culture, values, traditions language etc.
What I beleive is, if you try to understand other people you won't discriminate any longer.
Discriminating against another fellow human being = ignorance.
Ignorance = Misunderstandings.
I do not know if this can be the root cause of discrimination or not?
Personally what I have felt is more you try to be friends (understand) with people from other race/religion/colour, chances are that you are less likely to discriminate.
Also, sometimes it is upto a society to look into itself and see why they are not being accepted.
Maybe their hardcore beleifs do not fit in this 'More Free World'.
If you come to another country you should fit in, if they are too offending to you; may be you should go back home. Because if you carry your own attitudes you will get strange reactions, because people may not be aware of them. Well if you cannot accept them, how can you expect others to understand you.
p.s.: This post is not supposed to offend anybody. Just some thoughts.
What I beleive is, if you try to understand other people you won't discriminate any longer.
Discriminating against another fellow human being = ignorance.
Ignorance = Misunderstandings.
I do not know if this can be the root cause of discrimination or not?
Personally what I have felt is more you try to be friends (understand) with people from other race/religion/colour, chances are that you are less likely to discriminate.
Also, sometimes it is upto a society to look into itself and see why they are not being accepted.
Maybe their hardcore beleifs do not fit in this 'More Free World'.
If you come to another country you should fit in, if they are too offending to you; may be you should go back home. Because if you carry your own attitudes you will get strange reactions, because people may not be aware of them. Well if you cannot accept them, how can you expect others to understand you.
p.s.: This post is not supposed to offend anybody. Just some thoughts.
Friday, November 04, 2005
Nothing much to post
I have nothing much to post as all my thinking is diverted to my fingerprint reconstruction software. I do not know where does it adds extra pixels on its own... When I have coded just according to my theorem :-(( ... I feel like crying... It adds so much noise to original lines that new ridge charcteristics are added; which cannot be removed by thinning...
Thus changing the ridge flow of the fingerprint...
I have tested my algorithm now 100 of times. Me and my friend tried to go through the algorithm considering ourselves as a pixel in a 2D array, and we could notf find anything wrong with it.
Anyways ciao.
Thus changing the ridge flow of the fingerprint...
I have tested my algorithm now 100 of times. Me and my friend tried to go through the algorithm considering ourselves as a pixel in a 2D array, and we could notf find anything wrong with it.
Anyways ciao.
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Bomb blasts in delhi
Just as we all are preparing for Diwali...
I could not beleive what I read on yahoo messenger.
My friend typed something I didn't believe. Bomb blasts in Delhi, in Sarojini Nagar Market and Paharganj.
Sarojini Nagar market is one of the places on every college goers list...
I have great memories of going to Sarojini Nagar.
I used to go there when I was 10 years old on every alternate weekends, then my father got transferred and when we finally came back to Delhi, it was still a favorite haunt of mine.
Most of the shoppers out there are Students from all across India studying at Delhi University or some other college.
After hearing the news first thing I did was to call my parents, as many times we do our Diwali shopping for crackers etc. from Sarojini Mkt. and it was my sisters birthday day before. I was concerned if she was out there with her friends or my parents were there.
Well it was a big relief that they all were home safe and sound.
But, I still feel sad for people who lost somebody they loved and are going to celebrate a dark diwali.
At the same time I feel even more sad for the people who carry out such acts of terrorism; killing innocent people and feel that they have carried out a great act of patriotism.
I feel the same whenever something like this happens. How sad are these so called freedom fighters/terrorists who take pride by killing innocent people worldwide.
I could not beleive what I read on yahoo messenger.
My friend typed something I didn't believe. Bomb blasts in Delhi, in Sarojini Nagar Market and Paharganj.
Sarojini Nagar market is one of the places on every college goers list...
I have great memories of going to Sarojini Nagar.
I used to go there when I was 10 years old on every alternate weekends, then my father got transferred and when we finally came back to Delhi, it was still a favorite haunt of mine.
Most of the shoppers out there are Students from all across India studying at Delhi University or some other college.
After hearing the news first thing I did was to call my parents, as many times we do our Diwali shopping for crackers etc. from Sarojini Mkt. and it was my sisters birthday day before. I was concerned if she was out there with her friends or my parents were there.
Well it was a big relief that they all were home safe and sound.
But, I still feel sad for people who lost somebody they loved and are going to celebrate a dark diwali.
At the same time I feel even more sad for the people who carry out such acts of terrorism; killing innocent people and feel that they have carried out a great act of patriotism.
I feel the same whenever something like this happens. How sad are these so called freedom fighters/terrorists who take pride by killing innocent people worldwide.
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